Sunday 15 January 2012

A light-hearted interlude ;-)


I set out to do this last night (Friday) and  spent hours on You Tube, some of the time checking out a load of my favourite artists for something light-hearted . . . Well you can imagine why that would take so long, but most of the time I lost track of my mission and just enjoyed some music. However by about 1 am (?) I'd decided this was the song . . .  I'd long given up on light-hearted by then. I chose this video from quite a few of Jaques Brel performing this song because . . . well it kind of suits the song best. But for some reason it wouldn't let me bring this video here. With or without English sub-titles. Or even French sub-titles. No. What? after all that. I know, I couldn't believe it. I gave up . . . But not entirely. I came back to it tonight determined to find some version of this particular performance that would allow me to "embed" it . . . And eventually found one with Arabic sub-titles. I can't imagine why I can bring this one over here but none of the others. Who knows? Who's even still reading this? Eh? I don't even know myself why I've just written all that? but I can't not post it now . . . Just in case it was "meant to be" . . . Again, I can't imagine why but you just never know . . . Maybe it's just what you wanted. Ok I'm falling asleep here. I hope someone enjoys my "not so light-hearted interlude" . . .  And I hope you all have a very special Sunday.

6 comments:

  1. I cannot tell you how many hours I've spent on YouTube...that side bar gets me every time, one video after another and I'm so easily distracted!

    Enjoy your Sunday!

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    1. Same here . . It goes on and on. I have to make myself "x off" . . . and that's not easy. Looking forward to see what you post today.

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  2. Have a wonderful Sunday. I can't tell you how happy I am to see some mostly light heartedness here. And the arabic subtitles just add a touch of the surreal. Which seems to fit somehow.

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    1. Yes there has to be some light. Too many days of "realisation" in a row would be depressing. Although I do need them.
      Yes I like the arabic subtitles and the surreal feel.

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  3. I can't understand what he's saying but it doesn't matter because the emotion says more than words ever could. Beautiful...

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    1. Yes an extremely emotional song. Most of the translations on You Tube get critised for not being exact . . . but it is hard to translate emotion. Like you say sometimes it's better just left as it is. Beautiful indeed.

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